Adolf Diekmann

Adolf Diekmann (18 December 1914-29 June 1944) was an SS-Sturmbannfuehrer during World War II. His battalion of Waffen-SS troops was responsible for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944, and he was killed in action that same month.

Biography
Adolf Diekmann was born on 18 December 1914, and he worked as a lecturer at SS junior schools before becoming a Waffen-SS officer. In the summer of 1944, he commanded a panzergrenadier company within the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich during the Battle of Normandy, and he ordered the massacre of 642 French civilians (including 254 women and 207 children) at the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in southern France on 10 June 1944. On 29 June 1944, while fighting on the Normandy front, he was killed in action.